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• The Minister of Golf

  The minister of agriculture Amin Abaza who proudly completed the mission of Youssef Wali in destroying the rest of our agricultural wealth said strange statements last week no one paid attention to despite... Posted Nov 19 2008, 01:07 AM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: Egypt, middle east, citizen Journalism, politics, mideast, National, africa, Europe, water, Economy, environment, Nile, Agriculture, Amin Abaza

• Nov 25: The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

  On the occasion of The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the 25th of November, the Telefono Donna rape helpline of Italy circulated this controversial poster in Milan to... Posted Nov 17 2008, 03:40 PM by jazarah! Filed under: media, Ads, Interesting, Europe, Stuff, Controversial

• Anti-Drug National Agency | Hard drugs give you hard lessons

  Advertising Agency: Mercury 360 Bucharest, Romania Creative Director: Miguel Goncalves Art Director: Liviu Turcanu Copywriter: Cristian Scurtu Illustrator: Andrei Nedea Other additional credits: Adriana... Posted Nov 17 2008, 12:32 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Ads, Interesting, cool, Europe, Amazing, Public Interest

• You are not welcomed here anymore

  When I read the news of the Omar Bin Laden attempt to get an Asylum in Spain as he and his wife feel unsecured in the Arab world because of his call to international peace , I realized that I am in front... Posted Nov 09 2008, 11:38 PM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, citizen Journalism, Arab, politics, National, Europe, Arabs, Terrorism, Peace, Qatar, Security, Just Opinion, Arabic faces, spain, Omar Bin Laden, Saudis, Felix Brown, Osama Bin Laden

• Water, Wonderful Water

  Think underwater photography, and perhaps images of tropical fish, divers, wrecks and corals spring to mind. One look at the astounding works by photographer Emma Critchley however, and all preconceptions... Posted Nov 09 2008, 05:32 AM by Caledoniyya Filed under: Culture, art, Europe, Photography, Imagery, Pop Culture

• The Masala Movement in Egypt

  freiraum Originally uploaded by shehab.hamad . This beautiful taken by Shehab Ahmed in Cairo last month is from the Goethe Institute at Dokki, this graffiti is so beatiful , to be honest I never imagine... Posted Nov 07 2008, 05:01 AM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: Egypt, Photos, Culture, National, Europe, Arts, Egyptian Life

• Global Warming… what’s all the fuss about?

  Interesting ambient advertising in Amsterdam to raise awareness about the rising sea levels. Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather Amsterdam, Netherlands via Read More... Posted Nov 06 2008, 01:12 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Interesting, cool, Europe, Ambient/BTL, Smart, Amazing, Public Interest

• ArabCrunch Partners with Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards: NOMINATIONS OPEN!

  ArabCrunch is proud to announce its partnership with Mashable , in its 2nd Annual Open Web Awards. Mashable is one of the top visited blogs worldwide, its choice to include ArabCrunch as one of the 100... Posted Nov 05 2008, 10:48 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Blogging, international, Events, Europe, Blogs, USA, Social Media, Web 2.0, Asia, Startups, Mobile 2.0, e-commerce, e-marketing, Social Networking, arabcrunch, Mashable, Telecom, Search Engines, Where 2.0, SaaS, ArabCrunch News, VC & Capital, Nomination, 2nd Annual Web Awards, Vortals, Web Awards, Voting

• Ariel pocket | Remove stains in 10 seconds! Brilliant Ads!

  Brilliant ads for Ariel, focus on the cross for 10 seconds, and see what happens! (for a better view, click the image!) Advertising School: Fakd & European school of Design, Frankfurt, Germany Creative... Posted Nov 02 2008, 02:52 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Ads, Interesting, cool, Europe, Amazing

• Muslim Business Club to Rebrands to SALAMBC–Screenshots

  muslimbc whose CEO Rias A. Sherzad I interviewed back in April 08, is in few days time –next Tuesday- to rebrand to SALAMBC short for Salam Business Club. (Screen shots at the end of this post.) MuslimBC... Posted Oct 31 2008, 06:24 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Islam, international, Europe, Web 2.0, muslim, Asia, Startups, Social Networking, Germany, Business social networking, Salam Business Club, xing, linkedin, SALAMBC, Muslimbc, islamcrunch

• Laila needs you again

  Laila needs you again whether you are Egyptian or Foreigner, Laila needs your vote in the BOBs ,yup she is in the BOBs in the best Weblog Category .It is tough competition ,we know it but your vote means... Posted Oct 31 2008, 03:12 PM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: media, Women, Blogging, international, Europe, Geek, Vote, Letter from the editor, In the wind's direction, Laila, Polls, Kolena Laila, BOBs, DW

• OpenX Launches a SaaS Version of the Popular Open Source Ad Server

  If you are a blogger or a med size website who wants to monetize your website and manage your ads at easily with less hassle, the free open source company OpenX today’s announced OpenX Hosted is... Posted Oct 30 2008, 01:34 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Blogging, international, Arabic, Europe, USA, Web 2.0, Asia, Startups, online advertising, e-marketing, emarketing, Adsense, Arabic version, OpenX, OpenX Hosted

• Conto Barriers | Your Life can turn in a second

  Amazing! Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson Prague, Czech Republic Creative Director: Lars Killi Art Director: Michal Kotulek Copywriter: Katerina Holubova via Read More... Posted Oct 29 2008, 01:10 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Ads, Interesting, Europe, Amazing, Public Interest

• UNICEF | Send a Postcard, Address the Problem

  Cool graffiti, the idea is to promote UNICEF’s Christmas postcards in Croatia, the graffiti on the ad is real and is still on a wall near the High school of Commerce in Zagreb, Croatia. Send a Postcard... Posted Oct 28 2008, 02:45 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Ads, cool, Europe, Public Interest, Outdoor

• Bros | It’s what mosquitos would use on mosquitos they don’t like

  Hahaha, nice one! Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett Warsaw, Poland Creative Director: Jaroslaw Wiewiorski Art Director / Illustrator: Martin Winther Copywriters: Martin Winther, Michael Lars via Read More... Posted Oct 26 2008, 09:15 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Ads, Funny, cool, Europe, Smart, Amazing

• E.U. Leaders Seek Crisis Solution

  …and still fail to come up trumps:        Read More... Posted Oct 26 2008, 05:09 AM by Caledoniyya Filed under: Europe, Frivolities & Miscellaeny

• U.S. Election, Economic Crisis and the War: An Event

  This year has been perhaps the most tumultuous economically and politically in a long while, and as the United States election edges closer, there has been no better time to tackle those triple mega-issues... Posted Oct 24 2008, 08:05 AM by Caledoniyya Filed under: middle east, politics, Europe, Iraq, Asia, Conflict Zones, Britain, conflict, US elections, Afghanistan, Stop the War

• I did not expect to see her there.

  To be honest  I did not expect seeing Egypt’s first lady Suzanne Mubarak at the funeral of Sister Emmanuelle in France. Suzanne Mubarak attended the funeral service at the Notre dame cathedral along... Posted Oct 24 2008, 07:23 AM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, Women, citizen Journalism, Life, Religion, National, Europe, poverty, Egyptian Life, France, Suzanne Mubarak, chirac, Paris, Sister Emmanuelle, catholic Church, Notro Dame

• The regime should learn from Sister Emmanuelle

  I think that it was first time for me and the most of Egyptians to know the name of Sister Emmanuelle through the foreign media that aired the news of her death after very active long life "99 years"... Posted Oct 22 2008, 12:44 PM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Religion, Europe, Economy, health, poverty, Egyptian Life, France, Sister Emmanuelle, Leprosy Colony, Military Order of Malta, Zabbaleen area.Africa

• Wikeez Received Seed Funding of USD $250,000 from Kuv Capital.

  Wikeez a Lebanon based new social entertainment web site has received USD $250,000 from Kuv Capita l, the funding will be used for development and attracting market adoption. Wikeez allow people to publish... Posted Oct 22 2008, 06:54 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, Blogging, international, Lebanon, Europe, Dubai, startup, USA, Social Media, Beirut, Web 2.0, Asia, Startups, Portals, Social Networking, France, VC & Capital, Venture Capital, Paris, Entertainmen

• An Official statement from Princess Farial about the Ex-Queen Statement

  I expected that Princess Farial would comment on t he interview of Ex-Queen and Wife of former King Ahmed Fouad II on Dream TV II and I knew it won't be that nice because the Princess could not hide... Posted Oct 19 2008, 03:01 AM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: media, history, National, Follow Up, Europe, Egyptian Faces, Egyptian Royalty

• PhotoHunt 132: Family

  This week, Family is the theme du jour for the PhotoHunters, and once more I find myself resisting the urge to post something in keeping with the theme, that is, a good old family photo. Instead, today’s... Posted Oct 18 2008, 01:02 AM by Caledoniyya Filed under: Europe, Photography, Frivolities & Miscellaeny, Poland, Krakow, Imagery

• World Against War Tour

  As the new head of the British army, General Sir David Richards, ponders the feasibility of sending in a further 5,000 British troops into Afghanistan - thereby bringing the total to 30,000 - it is impossible... Posted Oct 17 2008, 07:35 AM by Caledoniyya Filed under: middle east, politics, Europe, protest, Conflict Zones, Britain, conflict, Afghanistan

• Fadila on TV

  This is what I think during and after seeing the Fadila interview on Dream TV 2. Nice glass bottle of whisky behind Al-Muslamany in Fadila’s apartment. It is noticeable that she is justified why she speaks... Posted Oct 16 2008, 12:21 PM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, media, Women, history, Europe, tv, King Farouk, Egyptian Royalty, France, dream TV, 1952, Fadila Farouk, ahmed foud II, chirac, charles de Gaulle

• Linked Development Enables Social Media CRM: Connects Microsoft Dynamics CRM to Facebook

  Founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of the Egyptian company LINKdotNET , LINK Development‘s Facebook Dynamics CRM Connector , is a new application to enable companies to communicate with and handle queries... Posted Oct 15 2008, 09:10 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Egypt, Arab World, international, Europe, USA, microsoft, CRM, Facebook, Social Media, Web 2.0, Asia, Social Networking, Telecom, Orascom Telecom, SaaS, Linked Development, SAP CRM, Oracle CRM, MSN Arabia, Enterprise 2.0, SugerCRM, Business social networking, LINKdotNET

• No more Twitter SMS! BrightKite has Free International In-Bound SMS and, It Also Redesigned and Added New Features -30 Invites-

  If you are outside USA, Canada and UK, you no longer can get your twitter friends update via SMS, yhough a number of starups came along to offer you twitter SMS but with hefty charge per SM S . Well that... Posted Oct 11 2008, 01:31 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, international, Europe, startup, USA, Social Media, Web 2.0, sms, Asia, Startups, twitter, Social Networking, API, social network, beta, Where 2.0, LBS, Brightkite, Internationla SMS, BK, Denvor, Location Based Socialnetwork

• PhotoHunt 131: Lazy

  Today’s PhotoHunt is a last homage to the summer that never really was, and what better way to mark it than with that essential prop of all lazy summer days and nights, the humble deckchair: Captured... Posted Oct 11 2008, 02:20 AM by Caledoniyya Filed under: Europe, Photography, london, Frivolities & Miscellaeny, Imagery, Britain, England

• The Reality and Myth about the hostages crisis

  This is the full interview conducted by my favourite Mona El-Shazely who hosted for the first time in an Egyptian TV channel two Egyptians from the hostages of Gelf Kabir abduction incident. They are the... Posted Oct 07 2008, 02:29 PM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, media, citizen Journalism, Video, National, africa, Follow Up, Europe, Tourism, National Security, Sudan, Chad, hostages, Europeans, Darfur, Mona El-Shazely

• Consumer spending on mobile broadcast TV to reach $2.7 billion by 2013, but revenues to be hit by free to air services, according to Juniper Research

  HAMPSHIRE, UK — The increasing availability of mobile handsets capable of receiving free-to-air analogue and digital terrestrial TV signals will adversely impact the prospects for dedicated mobile... Posted Oct 07 2008, 01:27 PM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Arab World, international, Europe, Us, UK, USA, china, mobile, tv, Asia, Mobile 2.0, Japan, Research, Press Release, Juniper Research, Germany, 3G, 2013, South Korea, mobile TV, streamed video-on-demand, DVB-T, mobile users, DVB-H

• Living to Al–Kindi’s Heritage, KindiSoft : Securing Your Rich Internet Application & Protecting Your IP

  Do you Al-Kindi (also known as Alkindus) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب إبن إسحاق الكندي )? most probably not. He was a 9th century pioneer in cryptanalysis and cryptology, he also devised new methods of breaking... Posted Oct 06 2008, 07:48 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Jordan, Arab World, Amman, Arab, international, Europe, startup, USA, Air, PSUT, Asia, Telecom, ASTF, Intel, KindiSoft, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, JCipher, kindi, SWF, Flash, Al-Kindi, Adobe, Cipher, RIA

• Vodafone | Make the most of being young

  Some things work only until a certain age. So make the most of being young. Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson Romania Creative Directors: Adrian Botan, Alexandru Dumitrescu Art Director: Razvan Chifu... Posted